Year: 2010

Several hours into Edward Tufte‘s day-long seminar on visual communications in Chicago, he revealed what he really hates about our communications tools. He briefly touched on the origin of the desktop with the Xerox Alto, a document-oriented computer.  He said that users didn’t see applications – they saw lists of documents, and they chose which…

When you want to illustrate your writing with pictures, it’s tempting to use Google Images Search.  With millions of pictures at your fingertips, why not just right-click on someone’s awesome picture, save it, and use it in your blog? Even though it’s easy and it’s nearly impossible to catch, it’s still plagiarism, and you know…